This insightful series of five blogs will be turned into a five-week, thought-provoking deprogramming journey. It will support patient advocates, global health professionals, and anyone curious about medical science decolonization to reframe the ideas of health, innovation, and science.

The enlightening texts honor the artist-researcher patients with whom I collaborate as a science decolonization writer and self-declared epistemo-pathologist. The latter is a Western term I use to diagnose and dismantle harmful knowledge systems—and the deliberate ignorance they sustain—while healing the realities they impact.

🌿 Summer of Unlearning: A Reading Series for Reimagining Healthcare – Week 1 – Michel Foucault’s The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception.

🌿 Summer of Unlearning Series: A Reading Series for Reimagining Healthcare – Week 2 – Ed Cohen’s A Body Worth Defending – What if our bodies aren’t battlefields?

🌿 Summer of Unlearning Series: A Reading Series for Reimagining Healthcare – Week 3 Audre Lorde’s The Cancer Journals—Where Silence Becomes Strength

🌿 Summer of Unlearning: A Reading Series for Reimagining Healthcare – Week 4 – Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha’s Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice – Where access is love, not compliance

🌿 Summer of Unlearning: A Series to Reimagining Healthcare- Week 5 – The end is just the beginning: The Patient-Led Scientific Revolution.